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Defender Thread (was 5/2/08: The Day I No Longer Suck!)
TOK:
Getting out of the 30's was actually a pretty major hurdle. Seemed like I hovered around that range for 50+ games until I started getting over that on a consistent basis. I haven't had a lot of time to play the last couple weeks, but I still haven't gotten over 100,000 again.
My regular games are 60,000-70,000 range, but I have had a couple in the 80's and low 90's.
I've also been alternating between Defender and Stargate, which I think is hurting more than helping. Stargate is nuts. The first couple Stargate levels are easier than Defender, then it goes nuts. With all the new enemies and the Inviso, the strategies are considerably different.
wbassett:
Couple of things...
First, has anyone encountered this and if so do you know why it happens- I was leaving my cab on. I normally leave all my computers on anyway, but I was playing games on a whim and it was nice just walking through the room, saying "I think I blast out a game or two" without having to boot the system. Anyway, I shut it down because I was going to be away for a few days and when I came back and powered it back up, all my Defender high scores from the previous week were all gone. It still had my high scores from an earlier time when the cab was powered up. Just a weird anomaly that kinda sucked because I broke 100K and had all the scores up over 60K.
Okay... a tip/hint that is working for me to shake some of the years of rust off... Try playing in two player mode against yourself. I found doing this I was able to start getting my skills back up closer to where they were 20 years ago. It's kinda weird, you're 'competing' with yourself, but for me it started doubling by scores. I'd get behind with one player and I felt like I had to try and catch up to my 'other' player.
Still sucks that I lost my 100K plus game!
I still have some very bad games, but I am back up in skill level now were I can get 10K with my first ship, and I almost made 20K with my first ship last night. When I was a kid, I could hit 40K easy with the first ship. I now am thinking part of it is I am playing with an 8-way stick that also has a longer throw than a dedicated Defender 2-way stick. I'll definitely be making a dedicated Defender cp when I get my modular cp done!
TheShanMan:
--- Quote from: wbassett on May 30, 2008, 02:24:01 pm ---Still sucks that I lost my 100K plus game!
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A week or so ago I got on the Donkey Kong high score table with a score around 120k or 130k. I exited the game and when I came back later it wasn't there! I then had the same thing happen with a 90k game. Fortunately neither was my best score, so I just considered it motivation to get more high scores. Now 126k is the minimum to get on the table. :) It still concerns me though because who knows when it's going to happen to a new high score. After I enter my initials I always let it run for a while longer before exiting the game just in case I was exiting the game too quickly after entering my initials (though I wouldn't expect that to matter).
TOK:
Are you guys using the newer "Save State" versions of MAME?
I'm using old Hiscore.dat versions and have never lost high scores. My horizonal cab running .84 has Robotron scores on it from 2004.
Havok:
--- Quote from: TOK on May 30, 2008, 09:35:01 pm ---My horizonal cab running .84 has Robotron scores on it from 2004.
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Don't you mean 2084?
;)